TL;DR: The shop is open for business!

A bit of a Recap:

Waaaay back when we started this blog in 2013, I swore we would never (ever ever) sell physical products. But over the years we kept getting readers emailing and asking for our product recommendations, and we just didn’t like the tools on the market. Either they were low quality, a poor design, too expensive, or just cost way too much to ship.

After years of this, in 2016 I ate my words and we created our very own custom brand of bar tools – starting with our #1 top requested tool: the trusty Boston Shaker. We launched them on Amazon since we didn’t have any warehouses or staff of our own to pack and ship the tools.

A shipment from late 2016. Yep, that’s our messy kitchen and the baby on the right!

A muddler that’s long enough that you don’t bang your knuckles on the side of your shaker or pint glass

A fine strainer with a super beefy weld at the handle so you can whack it against your shaker all day long, that handle won’t break off.

All this time we continued to sell on Amazon (and only Amazon) because we were still running this business out of our garage.

Another shipment from 2016, this time in our garage!

Growing Pains & Growing Up

As our shipments grew, we had to ramp up quickly and soon were shipping full containers at a time. Let me tell you: a shipping container is a LOT bigger on the inside than the outside. Especially when you have to unload it yourself!

We spent 2018 growing and scaling up, finding a warehouse that could receive containers for us and ship them on to Amazon, and continuing to grow the product line. And in 2019 we’ve been preparing for our biggest launch yet…

Celebrate Episode #150 with 15% off!

Simplifying the Brand

Something else you’ll notice over the next few months is that we’ll be phasing out the brand “Top Shelf Bar Supply” and rebranding all of our tools as “A Bar Above”. Since we only have one Instagram, YouTube Channel and Facebook page, it was getting confusing maintaining two separate brands!

We hope this will help simplify the brand and get everyone under one roof (so to speak.)

But Seriously, Folks…

We can’t thank you enough for all of your support. So many of you have left your reviews on Amazon and supportive comments on Instagram and YouTube. We read every one and we DO take your comments to heart!

Send us your feedback! Do you have our tools? Got ideas for how we could make them better? Got something you need but we just don’t sell yet? Let me know!